On Wed, May 15, 2002, Johannes Erdfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I finally hunkered down and got uhci-hcd working. I was surprised how
> easy it was to make the modifications for hcd.c.
> 
> This patch has received a moderate amount of testing so far. I've played
> with various devices and haven't had any problems. I won't claim it's
> bug free yet and I'll continue doing more testing.
> 
> The patch includes a small change to hcd.c to not call free_config if
> the HCD doesn't implement it.
> 
> There are some other messages that get printed such as:
> 
> hcd.c: usb_hcd_pci_remove 00:10.0, count != 1
> 
> but it appears from the code that this is just a soft warning that all
> of the references to the bus aren't freed yet. This isn't a bug.
> 
> Differences from usb-uhci/usb-uhci-hcd:
> - Cleaner code. uhci-hcd is based off of uhci, so it maintains the same
>   look and feel as well as readability.
> - Faster. The tests I've run so far show that uhci-hcd is faster in
>   every case than usb-uhci-hcd
> - It does not have the watchdog type feature for VIA chipsets. It's
>   something that is definately possible to implement, but I'd like to
>   find out what Windows does first.
> 
> Differences from uhci:
> - Modified to use the hcd.c framework. This removed a significant amount
>   of code and nesessitated lots of little changes.
> - Big endian support. I haven't been able to test it on a big endian
>   machine yet, but atleast 90+% of the work should be done. Once I get
>   my PowerPC working again, I'll test this and submit any appropriate
>   patches. This was the biggest functional change between uhci.c.
> - No more urb->next processing. Completely ripped out.
> - urb->interval support for Isochronous pipes.
> - A couple of bug fixes for some problems I noticed while working on the
>   code. These will be submitted for uhci.c in a seperate email.
> 
> Greg, the patch is relative to your reference counting patch (ie with
> usb_put_dev and usb_get_dev). Please apply. Thanks!

And of course the patch (sorry!)

JE

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